Hearts of Space #997 Sacred Songs (12-9-2012)

Inspirational - Seasonal - Christmas
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"Choral harmonies...seeking silence"
This is the current week's one-hour program from Hearts of Space Native American Radio Show, for December 9, 2012. This album was streamed using the latest Streaming Audio Converter application (vers 2.6)(retail version). The music was automatically split to MP3 in VBR. Voiceovers have been suppressed.
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This is an hour of choral harmonies, starting with the Libera Boys Choir. The track list, which is included, lists each song, but the album tracks actually are less than listed because HOS ran all of the melodies for a couple of the artists together. They are not all split out by song. NO SONGS ARE MISSING.
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Program Notes by Stephen Hill, Producer
In a world of seemingly endless conflict and strife, when the social fabric is being stretched and tattered, the pure, innocent sound of the boys choir arrives on the cold winter air as an audible balm for the soul. For choral singing is not only a venerable religious tradition: in the sound of massed voices, we experience an inspiring example of human harmony, cooperation, and generosity.

The Mass of the Eastern Orthodox church is a particularly rich source of this nourishment, and though the music for unaccompanied voices has liturgical roots, so universal is the sound that you don't have to understand a word to appreciate it. The Welsh music critic and novelist PAUL GRIFFITHS put it beautifully,
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"Melodies in these songs are traces dissolving in the waters of eternity,
[an eternity] implied by harmonies that sound like reverberations...
This is harmony seeking silence."
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On this transmission of Hearts of Space...we dive deep into the choral ocean, on a program called SACRED SONGS.